The constructionist approach to the study of Chinese character
construction, word formation and sentence structure indicates that it is feasible
to apply construction grammar to the study of Chinese, and the following
conclusion can be drawn: first, construction is the basic grammatical unit
and Chinese character is a type of construction; second, the continuum of
construction between Chinese character, phrase and sentence shows that
Chinese character is also part of Chinese grammatical study; third, there
exists hierarchical inheritance between abstract schematic construction and
substantial construction, and linguistic knowledge is in fact a network of
different constructions.